Hardy on "dumbledores" and "hag-rid" (was Re: Name meanings: )

[Milz]

No: HPFGUIDX 44249

--- In HPforGrownups at y..., eloiseherisson at a... wrote:
> A felicitous thought.
> The other day Milz said that 'hagrid' was a Hardyesque dialect word 
for 
> indigestion.
> 
> Crossword clue:
> ' Big character appears to have ruddy indigestion'
> Ans. Rubeus Hagrid. 
> 
> I've just looked in the 1902 Wessex dialect glossary provided on-
line by The 
> Thomas Hardy Association. I can't find that definition, but it does 
have,
> Hag-rod = 'bewitched'.
> 
> Eloise
>  
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Thomas Hardy, The Mayor of Casterbridge, Chapter 20...

'The sharp reprimand was not lost upon her, and in time it came to 
pass that for "fay" she said "succeed"; that she no longer spoke 
of "dumbledores" but of "humble bees"; no longer said of young men 
and women that they "walked together," but that they were "engaged"; 
that she grew to talk of "greggles" as "wild hyacinths"; that when 
she had not slept she did not quaintly tell the servants next morning 
that she had been "hag-rid," but that she had "suffered from 
indigestion." '


Milz